Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-08
THE RAILROADS..
Great Activity on All the Fort Worth
Roads With 0 Prospect Of Rapid
Completion.
Gainesville Gets tho Santa Fe ShoPs-The
Central Oficials' VISTA Rumor,
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The G ulf, Colorado and Santa Fe i
pushing rails, spikes and ties to the In
dian Territory.
The Southern Kansas has built seventy
five miles of track from kiows, and il
now grading on the sacred soil of Texa
in its march to Oldham county, wher
it will meet the road from Fort Worth.
The Fort Worth and Denver has decid
ed to greatly enlarge their shops IN thi
city, and have ordered heavy machiner'
to do any class of work required. 1t vii
not be long until work on these extensive
improvements begins.
C. FraIey, general bridge foreman 0
the Rio Grande division of the Texas ant
Pacific, was in the city yesterday and say
there can be no question of the fin'
quality of the St-swn coal. There ha
been some delay in getting all the tools
and material needed for the work, bu
they will come soon.
Receiver Dillingham; says the For
Worth Western has a fine route anc
speaks highly of the possibilities of TIT
road. Messrs- Lawrence and Morse o.
the Fort Worth Western should be pleas
ed at the hearty commentator of the
route they are running coming, as it does
from railroad man of great ability.
L. wv. Lloyd of Marshall, heavy tie
and timber contractor. was in the city
yesterday and reports that he is getting
out large quantities of timber now for
the Fort Worth and Denver. fine
house is to be built by the Panhandle
Construction Company at Quanah and a
huge freight depot is to be erected in Fort
Worth.
That road to the southeast is what
Fort Worth must have before she can be-
come all that was cut out for her to be.
She must have an cir line to New Orleans
and the pineries and white oak forests.
With this road built, the Fort Worth and
Denver would bring Denver and our own
Panhandle nearer to deep water at New
Orleans than any road that could be built.
J. II. Travis, master of bridges and
buildings OF the Texas and Pacific, said
yesterday that the great artesian we'll was
now down $50 feet and still in limestone
formation, and it rarely happened that
water was not found below it, Mr..
Travis remarked, tive will know in q
week or ten days, and l believe we will
have such a flowing well as will astonish
people"
A prominent railroad man said yester-
day: II predicted to Superintendent
Frost of the Fort Worth and Denver six
months ago that road would be started
from Fort Worth to Albuquerque inside
of 8 year. and sure enough, the Southern
Kansas of Texas is to be built from
Fort Worth to a connection near Tascosa
with the Southern Kansas, and both 60 to
New Mexico"
There were wild rumOrs on the street
yesterday to the effect that Jay Gould
was about to bring his Greenville extern
sion to Fort Worth to make natural
connection aud that he would parallel
the Texas and Pacific track. Railroad
men who might know something about it
were questioned, but said it was news to
them and that the rumor in their opinion
was premature.
President Paddock and Chief Engineer
w. B. Parsons of the Fort Worth and Rio
Grande interviewed Receiver Brown of
the Texas and Pacific yesterday in regard
to connection with the Texas and Pa
citic, temporarily at least, in order that
material which will soon begin to arrive
may be handled without loss of time
The gentlemen returned home last night.
President Dillingham; of the Fort Worth
and New Orleans, Majors Swanson, Cave,
and Daffan remained in Fort Worth yes
terday until O'Clock and were very busy
all day. They drove around the city and
informed themselves on the
terminal facilities offered by Fort Worth,
and when the gentlemen left over the
Texas and Pacific for Terrell to run over
that portion of their line, they had de-
cided on more extensive terminal fscili-
ties. Fort Worth citizens will be glad to
know that we will receive frequent visits
from these gentlemen who are now in
Lerested in our welfare.